Ward boy held for masturbating outside a waiting room in Bombay Hospital

In probably what would be the most bizarre news of the day, a ward boy has been held for masturbating outside an ICU waiting room in a Mumbai hospital. Yes, that is correct. [caption id=“attachment_2329294” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Image Courtesy: Bombay Hospital website[/caption] According to this report by Mid-day, the ward boy was seen masturbating outside the waiting room by a woman who’s grandmother was kept for observation in the ICU. Luckily, her husband was on the phone with her and she could report this incident to him immediately. The husband informed the security and police at once, after which the man was arrested. Mid-day reported that, “Jadhav was booked under Section 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code and was presented at Esplanade Magistrate Court, where he was remanded to judicial custody.” This is not the first time an incident like this has taken place in Mumbai. Earlier this year in May, a British woman, was left shaken after a man publicly masturbated while staring at her at a city bus stop during her trip to India. She was inundated with apologies and support from Indians after she blogged about it. Hemmings, who was travelling in India for three months and has since returned to the UK, wrote about the experience on her Lucy’s Miles Away travel blog. She was sitting at a bus stop in Mumbai when she noticed a man move closer to her. “From the corner of my eye, to my horror, I realised that he had pulled out his penis and was masturbating, staring intently at me,” she wrote .